“Catch When You’re Interpreting Negative Feedback as Worse Than It Is

There’s also another way anxiety can cause people to misinterpret feedback they receive. If someone who is feeling anxious gets mildly negative feedback, that person often panics and sees it as much worse than it is. For example, you receive some comments on your work, and the first time you read them, the highlighted problems seem much more extensive than they will when you reread the feedback the next day.
Experiment: Can you think of a time when you’ve panicked upon receiving negative feedback and seen it as worse than it really was?”